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Facebook told the SOS-PAC [Special Operation Speaks ] composed of former special ops officers from all four military branches to take this poster down. http://specialops2012.com When SOS re-posted it, Facebook banned them for 24 hours. Nice going there, FB. I know I need a FB page for pullmychain but everytime I start to get one, they tick me off with crap like this and I back off. from http://www.bluegrasspundit.com

An audit by an Inspector General at the Department of Labor delivers the black news for green jobs:

Only 16% of the promised jobs lasted beyond 6 months. At least as bad, more than half of the people who received taxpayer-paid training already had jobs. They either were part time workers looking for full time jobs or workers looking for more money, advancement or a change of jobs.

Many of us knew this was crony payback all along, just like virtually everything else in this administration. Where is all the unsubstantiated Dick Cheney-Halliburton outrage from the media?

Worried, ABC? As if the Obama talking point caption isn’t blatant enough for you low-information voters, the screen also hard-core ramps up the Romney/Ryan talk of cutting the federal FEMA budget, and the latest polling that shows a tightening of the race.

Since the bulk of rescue work is done by state and local entities, it’s fine with me if Romneywants to transfer inefficient and prone-to-waste FEMA money back to the states and cities. As for the polls, I don’t see how we can tell anything until we see more of a normal state of affairs after Hurricane Sandy. I’m not paying any attention to any until end of the week or the weekend.

Here’s a pic a friend took of Cave-In-Rock on the Ohio River a couple months ago.

There’s a ferry from Marion, KY across the river to Hardin County, IL, which is home to Cave-in-Rock and the Cave-in-Rock State Park. http://www.marionkentucky.org/ contains tourist infomation about Marion, including an Amish community.

My connection to the place is from the Disney movie Davy Crockett, which prominently features pirates masquerading as Indians and living in Cave-In Rock. Davy defeats the pirates, with the help of Captain Big Mike Fink, king of the Ohio River and King of the Keeboats. Here’s a link to the real-life history of Mike Fink, whom most people associate with the Cincy restaurant. There’s as much fiction as fact about both Fink and Crockett. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Fink